The Cat Who Covered The World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (625 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684871009 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Of course Henrietta insisted on being brought along to Moscow, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, and all the other cities the Wrens visited. And then there's Henrietta. His conclusion about the cat/journalist relationship will have all feline fanciers smiling in agreement: "I have met enough celebrity journalists whose smug self-importance might have been ameliorated or corrected altogether by the ownership of a couple of cats." --Jill Lightner. And of course Henrietta got into all sorts of scrapes--cats can cause enough trouble right in their own living rooms! The Cat Who Covered the World is a
Never take kitty litter for granted Mr. Joe Since our own two cats hate even riding in a car, it was with envy and admiration that I read THE CAT WHO COVERED THE WORLD, the globetrotting adventures of Henrietta and her foreign correspondent owner.As a writer for the New York Times, Christopher Wren and his family lived abroad in such widely separated cities as Moscow, Cairo,. Amazon Customer said Fun read.. Marvelous writer! Fun read.. If its good enough for NPR M. Godawski I heard about this book on NPR and HAD to go right out and buy it! Its a wonderfully uplifting story for any cat-lover. I give it 5 MEOWS, m'self.
Lost for weeks in Egypt, Henrietta lived wild on the unforgiving streets of Cairo, vied with Nile River rats for food scraps, and miraculously found her way back to her distraught family not long after they had given her up for dead. During her twilight years in South Africa, Henrietta jousted with exotic birds, danced to a township beat, and fought back against apartheid's guard dogs. When the Wren family moved to China, Henrietta received a medical checkup from the People's Liberation Army, sampled ginger and coriander, feasted on "huangyu" (a delicacy normally reserved for official banquets), and curled up with the writings of Chairman Mao Zedong. While she lived in Canada, she learned to plough through snowdrifts like a sled dog. In Russia, Henrietta cadged fish and cabbage at Moscow's Central Market, acquired a taste for caviar, befriended Nobel